Word: jayhawk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong. Since the newspaper was freely handed out in Army commissaries, and even Munich and Augsburg hotel lobbies, nobody at the 24th Division gave the matter a second thought. Neither did anyone at VII Corps headquarters, which happily accepted a similar subscription request for its newspaper, Jayhawk, from the official-sounding CAFIC...
Then an alert officer read about it in Stars and Stripes, which reported with innocent pride that Jayhawk "can claim some of the most distant readers among unit publications. It's a long way to Hong Kong, but Combined Allied Forces Headquarters there has renewed its subscription for 1964." A quick check revealed that there was no such thing as CAFIC. Indeed, it turned out that Hong Kong's P.O. Box 14940 was simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly...
Last week red-faced officials announced that some revisions had been made on their mailing lists, and that tighter controls would be observed in the future. Peking had lost its subscriptions, and Taro Leaf and Jayhawk had lost some of their most avid readers...
...prospects. "College football is 10% coaching and 90% recruiting, selling and advertising," admits Kansas' Mitchell. A Kansas boy himself, Mitchell concentrates on landing home-state players, is fast developing the fierce local pride necessary to support a winner. When Kansas only tied Oklahoma this season, 13-13, frustrated Jayhawk fans booed Mitchell -to his vast delight. Mitchell's ready explanation: "It's the first time Kansans have cared enough to gripe...